Stelarc is a celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. This book is a study of Stelarc's work practice from a variety of perspectives. It includes William Gibson's account of his meetings with Stelarc.

In Irrational Modernism Amelia Jones gives us a history of New York Dada, reinterpreted in relation to the life and works of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Jones enlarges our conception of New York Dada beyond the male avant-garde heroes of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Francis Picabia to include the rebellious body of the Baroness. If they practised Dada, she lived it, with her unorthodox

Performing the Body/Performing the Text explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking processess in visual culture.

Performing the Body/Performing the Text explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking processess in visual culture.

Published for the opening of a touring exhibition in Los Angeles in October 1997, this volume offers insights into the work of photographer Cindy Sherman from several vantage points. Her art is placed within the trajectory of feminist history, revealing her influence since the 1970s.

Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this book explores how technology has affected artist's abilities and forms to express themselves. It makes a companion to studies of contemporary art history, and media and cultural studies in the post-1960 period.

Features a survey of the historical, social, and aesthetic issues relevant to the development of contemporary art since 1945. This book contains dual chronological and thematic coverage of the major themes in the art of our time: politics, culture wars, public space, diaspora, the artist, identity politics, the body, and visual culture.

The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader brings together a wide array of writings addressing art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields from a feminist perspective, combining classic texts by leading feminist thinkers with polemical new pieces.

Explores the gap between an individual's perception of their identity and the perceptions of others. This monograph uses video, painting and photography, and places stereotypes alongside the subject of those stereotypes, to examine issues of identity, racism and belonging. It presents a multi-faceted view of the individuals concerned.

Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this title assembles a wide array of writings that address art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields from a feminist perspective.

A critical analysis of postmodernism in the visual arts since the 1960s, this focuses primarily on American texts that reference and construct Marcel Duchamp as the originator of postmodern art.

Covers the major works and movements, the theoretical developments, and the historical, political and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945. This work offers a synthetic analysis, as well as fresh approaches to, debates central to the visual arts since 1945 such as those addressing formalism, the avant-garde and technology and art.

Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this title assembles a wide array of writings that address art, film, architecture, popular culture, new media and other visual fields from a feminist perspective.

Body art, performance, happenings: these are all names for the many late 20th-century art forms that have used the artist's own body as the subject or object of the artwork itself. This book examines the works of key artists and charts their ideas and critical reception.